Day 2, ppt Flashcards
How was the Huff post article about smart phones a good metaphor?
- The iPhone would be the company
- The different apps would be the different employees with their different tasks.
What does Ancient Egypt have to do with Organizational Culture?
Egyptians and slave labor (The Importance of understanding and managing the group beliefs and customs of workers)
What was impactful in the 1930’s, for understanding Organizational Culture?
The Hawthorn IL studies, where the company/factory was manipulated in a variety of ways, They found out that the workers do a better job when management values them, and talks to them.
What was impactful in the 1950’s for Organizational Culture
- Anxious conformity to authority
- During this time there were large burocracys that employees thousands of people, because of this management was a huge concern.
What was impactful in the 1960’s for Organizational Culture?
- Widespread criticism of/resistance to dominate cultural institutions.
- Militarism, Capitalism, these institutions in our society started to fall apart.
What was impactful in the 1990’s to 2000’s? for Organizational Culture
Challenged by globalization, technological innovation, and neo-liberalism.
What is ‘Neo-Libralsim’?
Dominant ideology, having to do with the relationship between business and government. Belief system that promotes the value of free enterprise, and unrestrained competition, The belief is now, that the private sector in the market place should be out dominant source of value and beliefs.
Tribes?
We connect culture with tribes, because over time, they can create relatively stable and cohesive culture.
Organizational Anthropologist
Looks into integration of organizations.
Ethnographic thinking
Ethno-people Graph-documenting - So it is to document the every day life of people.
